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By Andrew Maloney | December 8, 2023
The average annual growth in income partner classes at some of the most profitable firms between 2017 and 2022 was 13.4%, while at other large, two-tier partner firms, it was 4%, according to a report this week.
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By Charlotte Johnstone | December 8, 2023
The associates say they work long hours just to do their regular work and that there's no time for hours on pro bono.
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By Dan Roe | December 4, 2023
The litigation shop's formula compensation system rewards associates for originating clients and contributing to contingency cases.
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By Patrick Smith | November 30, 2023
Quinn Emanuel, which is matching the latest base salary scale and bonuses, is expecting profits to increase more than 20% this year.
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By Patrick Smith | Justin Henry | November 29, 2023
Paul Weiss and Baker McKenzie also said they will pay "discretionary" or "premium" bonuses for high-performers.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | November 29, 2023
Most of the promotions across the three firms were in the US, but five of Weil Gotshal's promotions were in its London office.
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By Patrick Smith | November 28, 2023
Cravath said it will also match last year's year-end bonus scale, and foreign associates will receive the bonus corresponding to the calendar year in which they started. Paul Hastings and McDermott said they will match the Cravath scale.
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By Paul Hodkinson | November 19, 2023
The Israel-Gaza conflict and threats to the rule of law in various countries are putting the importance of daily commercial legal practice into perspective, writes the Global Lawyer.
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By Charlotte Johnstone | November 17, 2023
The hike now puts the firm in line with other elite UK firms.
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By Habiba Cullen-Jafar | November 16, 2023
A quarter of the promotions were in the firm's London office.
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By Abigail Adcox | March 14, 2024
Seth Markin's sentencing for an insider trading scheme highlights the continued security concerns for law firms, especially those with remote and hybrid working arrangements for their lawyers.
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By Amanda O'Brien | March 14, 2024
Ballard Spahr, Blank Rome and Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath are hosting a webinar next week to make the case that Philadelphia is an "incredible place to practice law." They're motivated in part by a shift away from on-campus recruiting.
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By Emily Cousins | March 14, 2024
The plaintiff alleges the firm withheld more than $60,000 in commissions earned on settlements.
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By Lee Rudy | March 14, 2024
This next generation of attorneys is coming to view plaintiff-side work as a preferable and more fulfilling alternative to the types of Big Law jobs that have historically dominated law school recruiting.
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By Patrick Smith | March 13, 2024
"We did more than our share of capital markets work in the crappiest market we have seen in a long time," said Cooley chair Joe Conroy.
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By Amanda O'Brien | March 12, 2024
"The data looks a lot like what it was in the Great Recession," said Nikia Gray, executive director of the National Association for Law Placement. "We don't think it's because the legal market is going through a recession, but because the law firms are overleveraged."
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By Victoria Pfefferle-Gillot | March 12, 2024
As part of Potter Anderson & Corroon's continuing commitment to supporting the work of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, three firm lawyers have been selected to participate in this year's LCLD programs.
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By Dan Packel | March 7, 2024
For five years, Orrick and Reed Smith have been giving associates billable hours credit for innovation work, and in that interval, generative AI has jumped to the forefront.
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By Kenneth Ling | March 7, 2024
Between learning what due diligence entails, figuring out commonly used financial jargon, and the other daily intricacies of the job, I seriously questioned what I had gotten myself into—and why my job felt so different than law school. But slowly, I began to find my footing as a transactional attorney.
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By Alexander Lugo | March 4, 2024
Greenberg Traurig, Holland & Knight and Akerman have all made multiple additions thus far in 2024. "It's insatiable," one local recruiter said of the demand for practitioners.
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